Stuff like this - its always best to submit a support ticket.
All anyone here will do is guess at the answer.
Posts by Ruefus
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Ed Sheeran is far more talented than many give him credit for.
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Try hitting the amp with a pure booster. Any time I need a *little* more breakup, that's been my go-to. No color added, just a hotter signal hitting the amp.
Sometimes it's as little as a .5 db boost.
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"Gig Ready" is so personal its ridiculous.
I can't say I've ever found a profile or performance I didn't need to tweak. The ones I like don't need much.....if they need a bunch of adjustment, I move on.
For example - Michael Britt (clearly) knows what he's doing. He loves his 3rd Power cabinet with his profiles and his results can't be denied. I've tried to make it work for me, but decided "Yeah....I pretty much hate it."
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Ok no drive pedals in the loop for me then....
Use your ears. I’ve used Loop Distortion for years now. I experience none of what’s suggested- and frequently turn it on and off while playing. First I’ve heard of it.
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The Drive and Fuzz are *very* capable.
With that said, there is something a real King of Tone instills that you can’t quite dial in with the Kemper Drive. It’s so close, no one will notice…..but I still run a KOT and Tumnus Deluxe in the loop.
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would not those same fixed memory positions from Kemper A overwrite whatever is in the same positions in Kemper B, since this is not a standard import/export, but instead a total backup overwrite?
As part of a back up, yes, that would work. But import/export of performances by themselves is not possible.
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Kemper has stated that import/export of performances isn’t possible due to having fixed memory locations.
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Re: Bluetooth headphones.
They’re fine for playback, but there is far too much latency to use for monitoring.
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With a Kemper profile taken from a sweet spot of that Lead channel, generic gain enables the user to bring down the gain to chrunch or even edge of breakup (not possible with the amp at all in this channel) and obtain the initial sound of the profile.
This is a good point, and you can take it one further. Take any 'regular' high-gain profile. Even something like a Triple Rectifier dimed on the most aggressive channel........turn the gain knob on the Profiler to zero. The Profile will play clean. It may (or may not) sound bad - but there will be zero distortion. Something the real amp won't do.
If I recall correctly, Kemper has said with the generic gain at zero, the Profile *can't* have any distortion.
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No. Because the gain the amp was profiled at - the static setting - was accurate. What generic gain could never do was mimic the specific amps reaction for the reasons you mentioned.
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If that is so it would be much more complicated than just the taper/amount. The distortion type could change depending on the amp and how high it is turned up. That is the question I am seeking, whether the gain is still like the generic gain in different amounts or it actually changes the gain itself like the actual amp does, if that makes sense.
If the tone stack and gain controls are being modeled - and they are - then yes, the gain should behave differently.
If it were a simple taper value, Kemper (or someone else) would have done it years ago. No one did - and even none other than Eric Klein (Chief Product Design Architect at Line6) congratulated them.
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A proper LP will have the gain increase mimic/match what the amp would actually do. I believe its more than just a simple taper, otherwise they'd have done this ages ago.
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I think this answers what you're asking.....If you don't know the original settings - I see no advantage to adding LP. Unless when you fiddle with the knobs you like what happens.
To my understanding, a non-LP profile vs a profile with LP will sound (and be) identical, provided you make no adjustments after updating. There is no added magic to 'improve' the existing profile.
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Do not limit yourself to just direct (or merged) profiles by assuming the studio versions aren't as authentic.
I don't care how I get the sound I want, so I ignore studio vs merged completely. If it sounds (and feels) good....then it is.
Well....it's an 11 pound box of electronics. *None* of this is 'authentic'.
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The problem is as follows.
If you have a rig that you have imported into a performance, then made changes to it, and want to save it, how do you know afterwards which of the two identically named rigs is the latest version?
This is a problem for me because i actually want to go back from performance mode to rig mode. And i do NOT want to connect my kpa to rig manager ever again if i can help it.
My suggestion -
With the performance loaded and the correct slot selected, press the Rig button. I forget the page number, but one of them is rig details with an edit soft button.Rename the rig, then export to Browse and you'll know what you're looking for. Kludgy? I suppose....but it works.
HTH.
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We'll have to agree to disagree on that one Ruefus. It's not just browse to performance saving but all saving where a Save As makes more sense to me.
No doubt, its unconventional. But the order of operations - rename, then export retains the rig name performance to browse. In this specific instance - doing a save as would sever any relation the new browse rig has to where it came from. Which is an enormous frustration for me, now resolved.
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Get a BBE Sonic Maximiser. It make pinched harmonics POP !!!!
Had one…..thought it was great for a while….but I got over it. 🤣
As far as generating better punch harmonics, a bit of extra gain helps. A fuzz does wonders. Billy Gibbons is one example. Eric Johnson’s violin-like lead tone (in part) is a fuzz-face and the liquid sustain it gives.
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As Ruefus says, the two rigs have different time/date stamps so can be identified as unique but it is a pain in the posterior having to add this additional step rather than simply having a Save As option like every other piece of software since the dinosaurs.
But is it truly and added step?
Granted, the sequence appears odd, but here’s the thing…..
You rename the performance rig first. Then export - and now the browse rig name matches what’s in performance. When you do the opposite (browse rig to performance) - the same thing happens.
I think that makes WAY more sense than a traditional Save As, where any relation to where the new Rig came from is lost.
